I felt like I was doing a degree in google-ing at one stage, but I don't believe the speed and complexity of development nowadays could be matched by the pre-br

I felt like I was doing a degree in google-ing at one stage, but I don't believe the speed and complexity of development nowadays could be matched by the pre-broadband days. Communities can be brought together on sites like Stackoverflow and people who aren't experts in certain fields can just google it, and implement something in minutes that would take much much longer to find, then learn, pre-google.